Though the kümmel-spiked Silver Bullet (gin, kümmel, lemon juice) is alleged to be Prince Philip’s favorite cocktail, bartender Ali Reynolds likes to use the savory spirit—whose taste he describes as ranging from white chocolate to pink peppercorn to olive tapenade to walnut—in his The Night Shining.
“I wanted to create a more robust, stirred, down drink,” he explains, in contrast to kümmel’s usual appearance in shaken, citrusy drinks. Here, he –where “the olive flavors I pick up from Ron Zacapa 23 work well with the caraway and chocolate notes.”